TITLE: The Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease: Public Health Entomology in Action
ABSTRACT/BRIEF OVERVIEW: The Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease is one of four such centers supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, all of which are dedicated to research and training efforts that support the National Public Health Strategy to Prevent and Control Vector-Borne Diseases in People. The MCEVBD is a network of partnerships between academic, public health and vector control agencies, and is anchored here at UW-Madison in the School of Veterinary Medicine and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. In this presentation, I’ll showcase MCEVBD research successes in vector surveillance, a mosquito-borne disease outbreak response, and mosquito and tick control.
BIO: Lyric Bartholomay is the Bernard C. Easterday Professor in Infectious Disease, in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine. She is one of the Directors of the Midwest Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease, and Director of the Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program. Dr. Bartholomay is an alumna of the University of Wisconsin Madison (PhD ’04). She was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Medical Entomology at Iowa State University before joining the faculty in PBS in 2014.
